In what might be his most controversial decision yet as head coach of the Philadelphia Eagles, Chip Kelly and the team have decided to bring back Michael Vick. And while the 11-year veteran is not guaranteed to be the Eagles' starting quarterback, he will be in an open competition with Nick Foles for the right to be behind center at the start of the 2013 season.

So, is the pairing of Vick and Kelly a match made in heaven? Can the first-year head coach of the Eagles resurrect Vick's career, again? These are just two of the many questions being tossed around in the national media.

Here's a look at what they're saying about Kelly's decision to give 32-year-old Vick another chance to be the starting quarterback for the Eagles:

That whole thing about Vick's speed and his ability to make the speedy players around him more effective? Reid had that same plan. Didn't work. Didn't work in 2011, when the offensive line was good, and it certainly didn't work in 2012, when the line fell apart. And one of the main reasons it didn't work was that, for all of his physical ability, Vick comes with significant flaws that have prevented him from maintaining a level of quarterback performance consistent with the best in the game.

Vick has struggled to call the correct protections at the line of scrimmage when presented with that responsibility. He has consistently failed to make good decisions, pre-snap, with regard to audibles. He has never shown improvement at reading a defense, not even after all of the additional classroom work he promised everybody he was doing last summer. He has never shown improvement in making decisions on the run or when the play breaks down. He has demonstrated, outside of one breathtakingly brilliant 12-game stretch in 2010, an unacceptable propensity for turning the ball over. He has not shown a devotion to the quarterback position as a craft, the way one must if one is to develop and maintain quarterback excellence into one's 30s.

Can Kelly fix all of that? Eagles fans should hope he's smart enough not to think so.

The honeymoon, as honeymoons tend to do, ended quickly with Kelly’s decision to retain quarterback Michael Vick. Fans who were giving Kelly a pass on a coaching staff full of what appears to be retreads and unknowns, took back that pass with vigor.

With his coaching staff and his quarterback, Kelly made one thing very clear: he’s not making moves to make fans happy right this second. ...

For what it’s worth, I think the decision to keep Vick is a bad one, because I just don’t believe he can play anymore. When I make my list of positives and negatives, the list of positives is just too short and limited with Vick. ...

There’s no way he’s not aware that the decision to keep Vick wouldn’t be a popular one. But history shows, the response to Vick will change if he plays well, if he wins.

Over the last two years with the Eagles, Vick has 38 turnovers, more than any quarterback in the NFL, throwing 24 interceptions (and 30 touchdowns) and losing 14 fumbles. Vick has also only played in 23 games, missing three games in 2011 and six in 2012 due to injuries, going 10-13 as the Eagles’ starter during that time.

Still, Kelly feels Vick fits.

Where and how is still the looming question, considering the offense Kelly runs, the read-option, depends on the quarterback getting the ball out of his hands quickly—not exactly a Vick strength. ...

Kelly stressed that he wouldn’t be changing who Vick is. Kelly hinted Vick may be the product of the systems he played in, both here and in Atlanta. Kelly also implied those systems, Andy Reid’s offense, may have been responsible for Vick holding the ball—and the turnovers that occurred because of it.

• Chris McPherson of PhiladelphiaEagles.com writes about Kelly's call for an open competition between Vick and Foles going into next season:

Philadelphia Eagles head coach Chip Kelly said on Monday that the decision to restructure Michael Vick's contract helps provide the "ideal situation" for the team moving forward this season. However, Kelly stressed that both Vick and Nick Foles will work with the first-team offense during the team's pre-draft mini-camp in April saying it's an "open competition" and that the job "will be won on the practice field."

Kelly has watched the practice film of Vick since being hired as the team's head coach in January. Kelly said that he's been impressed with the velocity on Vick's passes, his quick release, toughness and overall skillset.

"He's a competitor," Kelly said. "I don't think Michael is afraid of anything. He wants competition. I've seen Nick up close and personal and I think Nick wants it too."

Keeping Vick buys Kelly time to unearth a quarterback he wants to build his offense around for the long term. Vick will turn 33 before the 2013 season, but he remains a running threat, albeit one whose speed is declining, with a strong arm. ...

It is clear from the structure of the contract that Vick, who in the last two seasons threw 24 interceptions and fumbled 21 times (losing 9), is not intended to be Kelly’s long-term solution. In a year in which there are no coveted quarterbacks among free agents or draft picks, the Eagles’ decision is reminiscent of the one San Francisco Coach Jim Harbaugh made when he took over the 49ers in 2011. He opted to keep Alex Smith until he could find and groom the quarterback he really wanted — Colin Kaepernick, who replaced Smith in the middle of the 2012 season and led the team to the Super Bowl.

With Reid's departure after two disastrous Vick-centric seasons, it seemed all but certain that the 32-year-old QB would be gone, too. Kelly represented welcome change after 14 ever more claustrophobic years under Reid. A new offense, a new direction, a new quarterback - it all felt fresh.

Then the Eagles announced that Vick will be back with a newly renegotiated contract. And you had to wonder if the sirens' song had gotten to Kelly during those long hours of watching tape of the team he inherited.

"I look at his skill set, first and foremost," Kelly said Monday. "What he can do, how he can throw the football, how he can beat people with his feet, there's a lot of different factors he has. . . . For Michael Vick, there's a change of scenery but not a change of address."

It was hard to hear that and not detect, in the background, the sweet song of the sirens.

With the right coach . . . with me . . . this guy could be the greatest QB in the league!

Gulp.

• AOL FanHouse Columnist David Steele writes that Kelly is "smart to take flier on Michael Vick." He says Kelly just might have the "foresight" to help Vick succeed in his offense:

Will we ever know exactly how much talent and productivity was wasted trying to make Vick a West Coast-style quarterback? Doesn’t it hurt to think what might have happened had some coach had the foresight to come up with some version of the Pistol offense that gave the RG3s, Colin Kaepernicks and Russell Wilsons of today a new path to success? ...

Vick would not be coming back if Kelly didn’t see a way for him to excel in that system. The same goes for Foles, which will make for an interesting offseason and training camp. And the possibility of journeyman and ex-Oregon quarterback Dennis Dixon joining Kelly in Philly is still floating around. He’s another guy of whom one might never know what he could be in the NFL if an offense was built to his strengths (although that knee injury at the end of his college career didn’t help).

Factor in all of that, and Vick staying with the Eagles makes more sense than it would seem on the surface.